Improvement in the manufacture of dolls  heads



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GEORGE HfH'uA-WKINS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No.' 85,5189, dated Janna-ry 5, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF DOLLS HEADS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same, M40- To all whom 'it ma/y concern:

, Beit known that I, GEORGE H. HAWKINS, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have invented a new and-useful Improvement in the Manufacture of Dolls- Headsrand I do herebydeelare that the follows Aing is a full, clear, and exact desciiption'thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 is 4a back view of the dies in which the front part, or part A, of the headv and bust is formed;

Figure 2 is profile section of the same through the linexx, fig. 1;-

Fignre is proiile 'section of the dies in which the back part, or part B, of the head and bust is trmed;

Figure 4 is a sectional view, showing the counterpart tools employedin uniting the lapped edges of the two parts, A and B, at the crown or top' ofthe head;

Figure 5 is a side view ofthe counterpart tools cmployed in uniting the lapped edges of the sides ofthe parts A and B; and Y Figure 6 is a section of the same `through the line Zz, ljg.v5.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to the dies andrtools employed in forming and uniting the two parts 'or halves of hollow-dollheads, formed oi' -textile material, when such doll-heads are o -am accortmg to e process set forth in the subject-matter of Letters Patent granted to me therefor.

The parts A andB, which, when united, compose the headand bust of a doll,are formed by two pairs of dies, D and E, and G and H.

The first of these dies, D and E, are metallic blocks, bearing respectively a convex or alto-relief form or conhguration of the human face and bust,l and a concave or a hollow counterpart of-the same, as shown in figs. -1 and 2.

The maleor convex die I) tits' with sufcient looseness or freedomwithin its counterpart, or female die,

E, to permit the compression between them of the piece of sized or starehed buckrar'n, muslin, or other suitable `textile material which forms the front -or partA of the doll-head.

The dies G and H are formed to produce the proper form or configuration oi' the back of the human head and bust, in precisely the same manner as in the dies D and E, and in both of these pairs of dies the hair and head-appendages or ornaments, and also the bust and neck, must corresljlond, each to each, so that when the halves or parts A and B, formed by them, are brought together, and4 their edges slightly lapped 1 and united, an entire doll-head, nock, and bust, will be produced, with the iront hair or the ornaments thereof, or the ears, if shown, or other parts common to both the parts A and l5, and which are impressed or formed partially irv each, continuing into rigid, retaining permanently the impression it acquired in the dies.

In order to unite the parts A and B, I employ three separate pairs of metallic reaming or'counterpart tools,

- `only two pairs of which, however, arev necessary to be shown, as will be `obvious from further description.

'lhe first pair, I and -J are lfor unitingthe seam at the crown-ofthe head.

The convex tool I is formed, as yto its upper surface, to correspond and fit the interior conigurationfof the parts A and B, at the crown or upper part thereof, when the said parts are brought Atogether and their edges lapped beyond each other a short distance.

, The counterpart tool J is formed with a corresponding concavity, which ts the external configuration of the head at the crown-seam.

The width of the. face of these tools need be only suflicient to take in the lapped edges and extend a short distance beyond. v

The lapped edges are moistened at the crown, and set upon the tool I, previously heated.

The external tool J, also heated, is then brought down upon the tool I, with the moistened edges ofthe parts A and B pressed between them, as shown at gAc.

The moisture is` thus expelled, and lappeded-ges firmly and permanently united, by cementation or adhesion of the sizing in the fabric.

These tbls are, in practice, fixedwith suitable stability by' means of Shanks, or other device, tol some fixed frame, stand, or bench, and may be provided with accessory mechanism for operating `them easily and rapidly.

After the lapped edges ofthe crown are united, the

v lateral edges of the parts A and B still remain to be joined.

Thisjunction I accomplish by heat and pressure in a similar manner, and a second and third pair of counterpart tools are employed. These are shown at K and -L, figs. 5 and (i.

The proximate or impinging surfaces of the tools of each pair are formed to correspond, and fit against the side of the head and `bust in the line of thc seaming or lapped edges, and extend from thc crown, along the head, neck, and bust, to the lower cdge of the latter, and when brought together against the moistened lapped edges, expel the moisture therefrom, and accomplish the permanel'it union of the said edges.

The internal tool ,li must he of the proper size for insertion and witl'idrawal thi-nigh the contracted Opeliing occasioned by the vneck of thc doll-head, and it is due to the contracted character of the said opening that the above combination of tools is requisite.

l of tools for the remaining side is formed side, neck, and bust-seeming tools K L, substantially I, to correspond to that side, as the right and left sides as and for the purpose herein shown and described. Will require, respectively, right and left-hand tools. The above specification of my invention signed by These latter tools are provided with Shanks, a a and me, this 5th day of October, 1868. b, forvaxing them to any suitable frame, stand. or GEO. H. HAWKINS.

The pair bench. Witnesses )1 I claim as new, andv desire to secure by Letters WM. DEAN OVERELL,

Patent- E. GREENE COLLINS.

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